Watching Ao Yao walk toward the Freshman Class 9 classroom, Wang Donger felt a bit helpless, but she could only turn and enter the classroom of Class 1.
As soon as she stepped inside, Wang Donger saw Huo Yuhao's face, which she found somewhat unlucky. Yet, in the entire classroom, the only empty seat left was next to Huo Yuhao.
Wang Donger stood her ground, choosing not to take that seat.
She would rather die than sit with Huo Yuhao!
Just then, an old woman walked in from outside. At first glance, she saw Wang Donger standing in the middle of the classroom without sitting down, and a look of authority appeared on her wrinkled face.
"Why haven't you found a seat? Do I need to personally invite you to sit down?"
Was this the perverted old lady Ao Yao had mentioned?
Wang Donger took a deep breath and met Zhou Yi's indifferent gaze, saying firmly, "I will not sit next to him. Unless I can swap with someone else... absolutely not!"
"Oh?"
An ordinary teacher might have found such words a headache, but Zhou Yi showed a look of interest.
"So... is there some conflict between the two of you?"
Zhou Yi had always liked rebellious students; otherwise, she wouldn't have promoted the brainless slogan that 'those who don't dare to cause trouble are mediocre.' Wang Donger's words had clearly struck a chord with her.
Huo Yuhao clenched his fists, his face turning slightly pale, wondering why Wang Donger would say such a thing.
"There's no conflict. I simply don't want to sit next to a madman. I saw this guy pull out a dagger last night, intending to kill a stranger he had just met. I don't want to be suddenly slashed by his dagger while in class."
Thinking quickly, Wang Donger used the incident of Huo Yuhao being beaten by Dai Huabin yesterday as a shield.
Huo Yuhao stood up abruptly from his seat, his face full of indignation. "That guy is my enemy, that's why I..."
Hearing this, Zhou Yi was suddenly disappointed.
She had thought these two students had gotten into a fight, but it turned out to be just a misunderstanding.
"So, it was a misunderstanding. Since it's a misunderstanding, can you sit down now?"
"No, I still refuse."
Wang Donger didn't even spare Huo Yuhao a glance as she brought up the fact that he had been severely beaten by Dai Huabin. "Since he's an enemy, you should be even less impulsive. Exposing yourself to an enemy when you lack the strength is simply foolish. I don't want to sit with someone foolish."
"You!"
Huo Yuhao grit his teeth, staring at Wang Donger with angry eyes.
He admitted that yesterday's incident was indeed impulsive. But this person, whom he had only met once, didn't need to use such vicious words to evaluate him, right?
A look of impatience flashed across Zhou Yi's face, but Wang Donger's refusal to sit with Huo Yuhao was already seriously delaying her teaching procedure and rhythm.
Left with no choice, Zhou Yi picked someone at random to sit next to Huo Yuhao and gave the seat to Wang Donger.
As for why she didn't use the threat of expulsion against Wang Donger...
Zhou Yi had actually thought about it, but considering that such an expulsion might affect her subsequent teaching, she forced herself to hold back.
"You, I'm talking to you."
Zhou Yi pointed at Huo Yuhao, who hadn't yet had time to sit down, and said in a calm voice, "Did you fight with someone else?"
Huo Yuhao's heart tightened, but since his secret had been completely exposed by Wang Donger, he could only nod honestly.
Zhou Yi didn't speak, only looking at Huo Yuhao's still somewhat bruised eye sockets.
She liked her students to enjoy fighting and to dare to cause trouble.
But she very much disliked it when her students couldn't win their fights!
"Besides him, has anyone else fought in the last few days? No? Heh, in that case, everyone except him—around the playground for a hundred laps! Now, immediately, at once!"
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Feeling lucky that he wasn't assigned to Freshman Class 1, Ao Yao sat in the classroom of Freshman Class 9, looking at Ning Tian sitting beside him, not quite knowing what to say.
As for the diary, he hadn't continued updating it for the time being because he really didn't know what to write.
At the thought that Ning Tian, sitting right next to him, could see the contents of his diary, Ao Yao felt as if ants were crawling all over him.
"Ao Yao."
An abrupt call woke Ao Yao from his daze. When he looked up, he happened to meet Ning Tian's eyes, which seemed to contain fragments of starlight, and her exquisite face, which showed no flaws even up close.
Ao Yao's breath hitched for a moment.
Although Ning Tian was just a background character in the original work and had that abstract plot point about a gender change, Ao Yao had to admit that Ning Tian's beauty was truly impressive.
It made sense when he thought about it.
No matter what, Ning Tian was the Young Sect Master of the prestigious Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School. She had been pampered since childhood, and her parents were both handsome and beautiful; it would be a rare thing for her to be ugly.
"After class in a bit, why don't you come with me and Xiao Feng for a walk? It was too late yesterday, and there were many places we didn't have time to see, like the Beast Fighting Area. What do you think?"
Go for a walk in the Beast Fighting Area?
After a brief hesitation of two and a half seconds, Ao Yao nodded and agreed, while silently beginning to calculate in his mind.
The current situation between me and Ning Tian should be: she knows I have the diary book, and I know she knows I have the diary book, but she doesn't know I know she knows I have the diary book.
So the best way right now is...
To pretend I don't know that she knows I have the diary book.
That should be right.
As for that diary book... I still have to continue writing in it; after all, the rewards are quite enticing. I can't just give up on the diary book's rewards because I feel embarrassed, right?
Ao Yao could still distinguish which was more important.
[Speaking of the Beast Fighting Area, I have to mention Huo Yuhao's flashy operation. Others go to the Beast Fighting Area to hone their combat abilities, but this guy goes there and not only chooses the most ordinary hundred-year Spirit Beast, but also uses his second Spirit Ability, Mimicry, to simulate two hundred-thousand-year spirit rings while adding the aura of his second spirit, the 390,000-year Vicious Beast, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.]
[This move was indeed quite clever, but it's also hard to evaluate... He scared the Spirit Beasts in the Beast Fighting Area so much they were pissing and shitting themselves, forcing the Beast Fighting Area to close for a while. It's a pure waste of public resources!]
[Putting oneself in the shoes of Elder Gong Changlong of the Beast Fighting Area, it's like the sky has fallen. The poor old man worked so hard to raise those Spirit Beasts so Shrek students could hone themselves through them, only for a two-ring Spirit Grandmaster to come along and scare all the beasts he painstakingly raised into wetting themselves.]
[It's only because Huo Yuhao awakened his second spirit and possessed the Ultimate Ice attribute; otherwise, he would have been slapped to death by Gong Changlong sooner or later.]